Charles Plummer in the introduction and notes to his splendid edition of Bede voiced some early doubts concerning the `` elaborate superstructure '' they raised up over the slim foundations afforded by the traditional narratives of the conquest.

Later in the same work, Bede notes that Hengist was the father of Oeric, and that Oeric accompanied Hengist upon his invitation by Vortigern.

Bede makes the claim that Oswald " brought under his dominion all the nations and provinces of Britain ", which, as Bede notes, was divided by language between the English, Britons, Scots, and Picts ; however, he seems to undermine his own claim when he mentions at another point in his history that it was Oswald's brother Oswiu who made tributary the Picts and Scots.

" Michael Jones notes " There are in fact several adventus dates in Bede.

Bede notes that Queen Eafe " had been baptised in her own country, the kingdom of the Hwicce.

After first killing the monks, Æthelfrith prevailed over the enemy army, although Bede notes that Æthelfrith's own forces suffered considerable loss.

The validity of these Memoranda ( and similar notes in the Moore Bede ) as evidence for the precise year in which the manuscript was copied has been vigorously challenged.

Bede notes that Hrēþmōnaþ occurs between Solmōnaþ ( February ), so named due to the offerings of cakes to the gods during the month, and Ēostermōnaþ ( April ), named after the goddess Ēostre.

19th century scholar Jacob Grimm notes, while no other source mentions the goddesses Rheda and Ēostre, saddling Bede, a " father of the church, who everywhere keeps heathenism at a distance, and tells us less than he knows " with the invention of the goddesses Rheda and Ēostre would be uncritical, and that " there is nothing improbable in them, nay the first of them is justified by clear traces in the vocabularies of the German tribes.

In 1899, Bede was made a Doctor of the Church by Leo XIII, a position of theological significance ; he is the only native of Great Britain to achieve this designation ( Anselm of Canterbury, also a Doctor of the Church, was originally from Italy ).

This, combined with Gildas's negative assessment of the British church at the time of the Anglo-Saxon invasions, led Bede to a very critical view of the native church.

For Bede, Mercia was a traditional enemy of his native Northumbria and he regarded powerful kings such as the pagan Penda as standing in the way of the Christian conversion of the Anglo-Saxons.

His story is related in the Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (" Ecclesiastical History of the English People ") by Bede who wrote, " here was in the Monastery of this Abbess a certain brother particularly remarkable for the Grace of God, who was wont to make religious verses, so that whatever was interpreted to him out of scripture, he soon after put the same into poetical expressions of much sweetness and humility in English, which was his native language.

The native Picts, according to the medieval writer Bede, were converted in two stages, initially by native Britons under Ninian, and subsequently by Irish missionaries.

For other kingdoms than his native Northumbria, such as Wessex and Kent, Bede had an informant within the ecclesiastical establishment who supplied him with additional information.

The eighth-century monk and chronicler Bede lists both Oswald and Oswiu as having held imperium, or overlordship, over the other Anglo-Saxon kingdoms ; in Oswiu's case his dominance extended beyond the Anglo-Saxons to the Picts, the Gaels of Dál Riata, and the many obscure and nameless native British kingdoms in what are now North West England and southern Scotland.

This theme was developed from Gildas ' work, which denounced the sins of the native rulers during the invasions, with the elaboration by Bede that the invasion and settlement of the British Isles by the Angles and Saxons was God's punishment for the lack of missionary effort and the refusal to accept the Roman date for celebrating Easter.

Likewise, in his treatment of the conversion of the invaders, any native involvement is minimized, such as when discussing Chad of Mercia's first consecration, when Bede mentions that two British bishops took part in the consecration, thus invalidating it.

According to Farmer, Bede took this idea from Gregory the Great, and illustrates it in his work by showing how Christianity brought together the native and invading races into one church.

According to Bede, he was a Berber native of North Africa, and abbot of a monastery near Naples, called Monasterium Niridanum ( perhaps a mistake for Nisidanum, as being situated on the island of Nisida ).

Bede particularly mentions the metrical art, astronomy, and arithmetic ( which may be considered as representing what we should now call rhetoric and the belles lettres, physical science, and mathematics ); and he adds, that while he wrote ( in the early part of the eighth century ), there still remained some of the pupils of Theodore and Adrian, who spoke the Greek and Latin languages as readily as their native tongue.

The name probably derives from the Old English bēd, or prayer ; if Bede was given the name at his birth, then his family had probably always planned for him to enter the clergy.

It is the most widely copied Old English poem, and appears in 45 manuscripts, but its attribution to Bede is not absolutely certain — not all manuscripts name Bede as the author, and the ones that do are of later origin than those that do not.

Ælfric of Eynsham paraphrased Bede into Old English, saying " Now the Earth's roundness and the Sun's orbit constitute the obstacle to the day's being equally long in every land.

Bede offers a different, and probably older, account wherein Dál Riata was settled by a certain Reuda, which is more internally consistent, given that Old Irish Dál means portion or share, and is usually followed by the name of an eponymous founder.

Bede writes that Oswiu was fluent in the Old Irish language and Irish in his faith.

" Beowulf, Bede, and St. Oswine: The Hero's Pride in Old English Hagiography.

The Monastery of Saint Paul in Jarrow, part of the twin foundation Monkwearmouth-Jarrow Priory, was once the home of the Venerable Bede, whose most notable works include The Ecclesiastical History of the English People and the translation of the Gospel of John into Old English.

Nevertheless, there are some fragmentary Old English Bible translations, notably a lost translation of the Gospel of John into Old English by the Venerable Bede, which he is said to have prepared shortly before his death around the year 735.

The modern English term " Easter " is the direct continuation of Old English Ēastre, whose role as a goddess is attested solely by Bede in the 8th century.

The town's name is recorded in its earliest form as Mailros, ' the bare peninsula ' ( Old Welsh or Brythonic ), referring to the original site of the monastery, recorded by the Venerable Bede, in a bend of the river Tweed.

Kinneil, in the western part of Bo ' ness, was mentioned by Bede, who wrote that it was named Pennfahel (" Wall's end ") in Pictish and Penneltun in Old English.

Toward the end of the 7th century, the Venerable Bede began a translation of scripture into Old English ( also called Anglo-Saxon ).

* Caedmon is mentioned by Bede as one who sang poems in Old English based on the Bible stories, but he was not involved in translation per se.

* A translation of the Gospel of John into Old English by the Venerable Bede, which he is said to have prepared shortly before his death around the year 735.

According to Bede, Hilda ( or Hild, the Old English form of her name ) was born in 614, the second daughter of Hereric, nephew of Edwin of Northumbria, and his wife Breguswith.

Our main source of reference for Old English month names comes from the Venerable Bede.

Old English material in the Leningrad manuscript of Bede ’ s ecclesiastical history.

* Bede House, Old Aberdeen

The Anglo-Saxon writer Bede claimed in his work Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum ( 731 ) that Old Saxony was the area between the Elbe, the Weser and the Eider in the north and north west of modern Germany and was a territory beyond the borders of the Roman Empire.

The Christian monk Bede records that November ( Old English Blótmónaþ " the month of sacrifice ") was particularly associated with sacrificial practices: